We love our cat tree. The head peep made it herself more than fifteen years ago, and it has traveled thousands of miles and belonged to two generations of cats. The sisal on it doesn’t last forever, though. We have been complaining for a while that it was time to give us fresh sisal for our claws. We just can’t get a good grip in it when it looks like this.
And the patch job the head peep did on the other leg was really starting to unravel.
The rug on the platforms needs replacing, too, but we don’t want to push our luck. We have been lobbying for the sisal to be upgraded. And this was the big day!
So off came nearly all of the original sisal, all the way down to the wood. You can see that our cat tree is actually made of landscape timbers. Those make the tree much heavier than the ones you see at your local pet store. It was obviously not built with the idea of having to move it in and out of upper-floor apartments.
There was a lot of sisal rope, hot glue, some u-nails, and a few HBO words. And then…. nice, fresh scratching sisal, rising four feet on the highest riser.
Inspector Newton: I’m going to get some serious use out of this as soon as you turn that camera off.
Pawesome tree mew have and even better how mew have mewz human trained to make and repair mew one!
Wow, you have such a great Mom to rebuild that scratching post. We need to get our Person to do stuff like that. That looks terrific. Have a great day.
We’re impressed!! That sisal looks very inviting!!
The Florida Furkids
Your human did a good job. We wanna get our claws into that sisal!
wow! your mom is talented! you are very, very lucky!
Wow Newton you’ve got first go on the new sisal – woohoo!!
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Your human did a great job on your tree! We hope you enjoy it 🙂
Bravo for the talented head peep. I bet you all will have it ‘scratched to purrfection’ in no time. Hugs madi your bfff
Wow! Your head peep made that!? That’s just pawsome! That’s so wonderful that she changes the sisal when it gets all…hairy.
yeowzer! That was some great work your Mom did…specially those HBO words…heh…heh
Newton you have nice new sisal to sink those mancat paws into!!!! Yeeha!!
I am quite impressed too, my Dad would just buy a new on cause he isn’t handy like that.
Whoa! Can your head peep come and do mine too! I agree with Brian.
Wow! You did a great job! Our sisal looks even worse than yours did before you started. We should make the mom replace ours too. Did you buy it at a hardware store? Or maybe at a craft store? She is thinking she could just use a nail gun. Could just that work, or do you need to glue it too?
We’re impressed and would be even more so if our mom would get off her…well, if she would fix ours too. Purrs…
nicely done! that reminds us we need to get our mom to do a sisal re-wrap on our tree! Enjoy the new round of shreddin, Newton!
Pip, Smidgen, Minnie, Hollie
Wow, your human is so talented having made your kitty climbing tree. That new sisal looks mighty tempting. We do, however, think you should continue to lobby for new carpet. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Nice job for a human if only I had thumbs I could do it too..